A Canadian Cat
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It's a challenging. It works like the trench system. You place a second wire segment near an existing one and they snap together. Rinse and repeat to create the line of wire. If I recall correctly you cannot orient a single segment you can only control the orientation with two or more.
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1 hour ago, Ultradave said:
system be developed to track and then laser blind small drones that could be mounted on a vehicle, or even small enough that individual AFVs could carry their own?
Adding more stuff to AFVs sounds like @The_Capt's "2. Anger - We will try to protect the tank, just so we can keep it viable."
1 hour ago, Ultradave said:Like tank and anti-tank weapons, it will become an another arms race, with more capable and resistant drones and more effective countermeasures against them.
No doubt that is happening. a lot of booths at CANSEC this past year were all about drones. There were as many offering drone counters as there were drones.
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I received my three turns and played them all - just pw setting so no fun - yet
I found only one of my three opponents has a Matrix community forum account and I sent them a direct message.
I find their setup a bit odd. Why is the tournament account not tied to the community account? I would have hoped / assumed that if you signed up for the forum you would be ready to go for a tournament. In fact I think you are. But on the other hand I would also have expected that if you signed up for a tournament that created account would also be setup for the forum. That way at least people could DM their opponents easily.
Sigh maybe some day ?
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27 minutes ago, Centurian52 said:
when I go back to the PBEM in Progress folder I'm asked to log back in
That is odd. I do not experience that. Once I'm logged in I stay logged in until I shut down the game. Then I have to log in again next time I run the game.
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1 hour ago, Centurian52 said:
I've never used the PBEM system before and I can't seem to start the first turn.
- I see '[Grand Tournament] CMCW Round 1 (Turn 0)'
- I click Continue
- I see New Password (looks like I'm playing the Soviets)
- Per instructions I leave the field blank and click ok
- I see the Save Email Game box, File Name: Valley of Ashes 002
- I click Ok
All of that looks fine and just what I did this morning for all three games. Just like a regular PBEM game the first turn is setting the pw and that is all you do. In this case leaving it blank makes it feel like you did nothing at all
But what you did do was create a file ready for your opponent to play. The PBEM++ system will have sent that file to the server for delivery to your opponent. They get to do their setup and send the turn back to you.
1 hour ago, Centurian52 said:- I'm back at the main menu and logged out of my Slitherine account
This I don't understand. You should return to the main menu of the game once the save dialog box goes away. However I don't know what "logged out of my Slitherine account" means. Can you clarify?
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1 hour ago, dan/california said:
I wonder if the upcoming performance test for the Abrams we have sent to Ukraine might make a dent in the denial
Why would an Abrams fair any better than a challenger or a leopard 2? I know they are a good tank but they have all the same limitations and are just as vulnerable as any other tank.
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20 minutes ago, Kinophile said:
Keep hitting them until they leave.
Keep hitting them as they leave. Then if they don't stop with the terror attacks keep hitting them after they leave.
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3 minutes ago, Haiduk said:30 minutes ago, cesmonkey said:
What do you think would be a good target for ATACMS containing sub-munitions?
Airfields. Berdiansk, for example and Crimean of course
Plus HQs and logistic sites that were moved out of HIMARS range.
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On 9/20/2023 at 1:24 PM, ratdeath said:
Please!
Don't trust those eyes - it's a trap!
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Hey @ViperAssassin26 have you considered uploading to the CM mods site: CM Mods IV?
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1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said:
Prig's plane had it's "malfunction":
That wasn't a malfunction that was a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
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8 hours ago, PEB14 said:
- I understand that the aircraft will attack anything they can see in their target area. Only what they can see (no area fire)? Strictly in their target area (no fire outside)?
Correct it picks its own targets inside the area specified by the FO. I have seen them go just outside the area in the past.
8 hours ago, PEB14 said:- The forward observer needs to have a LOS to the target area for calling aircraft support, like for artillery. But what thereafter? Does it help if the FO has a LOS to units inside the area?
No, once the call has been made your FO does not make any difference that I have seen.
8 hours ago, PEB14 said:- I see in some AAR that people redirect their aircraft to alternate target areas. Therewas no possibility to "adjust fire" like one does for artillery. Did I miss something? How can you change the aircraft target?
Those people either made a second call after the CAS finished the mission or they cancelled the mission and made a new call.
8 hours ago, PEB14 said:- It is not clear for how long an aircraft remains available for support. In my case it stayed for about 10 minutes, then disappeard but seemed to be available for another call with a 10 minutes delay... Can you call the same aircraft several times in the same mission, as long as it has got ammos?
I'm not sure what the time limit is either. Once they are out of ammo they leave for good. I usually assume they are going to run out of ammo on the mission I called so if I really really want a subsequent call I'll cancel the first one while they still have ammo. Just to be sure.
8 hours ago, PEB14 said:- My Typhoon had bombs and 20 m cannons. I had the choice bewteen light, medium and heavy missions. Unsure of what this meant, I asked for medium... Should I have done otherwise?
It's more guidance light means favour strafing and heavy means favour bombs. I have not really tried experimenting with how strong the effect is. For example I don't know if Light would prevent a plane armed like yours from dropping bombs at all. Hopefully someone else can chime in on that topic.
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17 hours ago, Vacillator said:
If you read Steam's notes about it, they say users will no longer be able to play if they're on Win7.
Surprised me, but I'm on Win11 so don't give much of a flying f**k.
Yeah, this kind of thing can be annoying. I had Vista and was staying away from Windows 8. A photo cataloguing program I use came along and said they were dropping support for Vista. I wasn't too worried since I had been using their Beta and it worked fine. Release came and they f***ing added code to refuse to run on Vista. I was very annoyed. Dropping support is one thing but actively preventing the software from running that's really frustrating.
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1 hour ago, Andrew Kulin said:
Is there any way that fore these tournaments that players are given their opponent's contact e-mail?
There is actually a private messaging system with your Matrix account. It seems that new messages there do not trigger an email. Matrix changing that would go a long way.
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1 minute ago, dan/california said:
Not sure if this is real
If it is not it's just the one of hundreds of deep fakes I would make
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6 minutes ago, Behemoth said:
I will not be happy in a renters society, especially in regards to my books, music, software, and lastly games. If you have a club for those who care, I'll join!
Agreed. Perhaps a club is what we need. When Adobe switched to rent only and many complained, including myself, Adobe ignored us and other users bitched at us even though all we wanted was to be able to own. We never said they could not rent if they wanted to. It keeps happening over and over. Sigh.
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22 minutes ago, Redwolf said:
That is all unexplored space.
Not really. Steam has their terms of service that we all signed up to and they can revoke your ability to play the games you lease whenever they need to change what OSes they support. It's very well established space. Extremely frustrating but it is a done deal now.
24 minutes ago, Redwolf said:The first thing I would try to do is re-buy the game on GoG.
This is what we all have to do - buy from other sources that have better terms. Sadly this is like a handful of us screaming against a hurricane for all the good it does us. There are just too few people who care about this issue.
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5 hours ago, PEB14 said:
Nevertheless, it wouldn't explain a difference between German and Allied tanks behaviour as fog of war is the same for both sides…
Yeah, I only meant in a particular moment you don't always know the condition of an enemy tank. The overall performance difference is some of the other issues being discussed.
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I don't think we will ever get that ability in the general game. I could be wrong of course since I don't speak for CM. I have no idea if Steve will drop in and comment. His previous stated stance - from my memory so forgive any mistakes I might make - is that he has no desire to do that for two reasons:
- the game is a historically accurate simulation so allowing people to uber their favour tank for nerf the "bad" guys' rifles etc is not a good idea
- the multi player community would be come fractured and or be exposed to cheating because only people with the same capability mods could play against each other and the development effort required to ensure that works without cheating is huge
I, personally, agree with this 100%
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There are a couple of things to note. First when you are shooting at an enemy tank you don't get perfect information about its condition. You only know it's knocked out when your soldiers know it's knocked out. I know I've relayed this story before (plus the original post which I was not able to find). I had a Sherman put 7 rounds into a PzIV at close range before knocking it out. I thought it must be a bug. Turns out since this was in the woods the visibility was challenging and my tank crew just did not know they KO'ed it with the first or second shot (I cannot remember which) so they kept firing.
Then there is the issue of armour vs ammo. The ability to actually cause system damage, crew casualties and knock out a tank depends on the energy left in the shell after it has penetrated the armour. At the right distance any gun can just barely penetrate a particular tank's armour. So, its not some uber property of a Panther vs some terrible property of a Sherman. Its how the engagement falls with in the damage capabilities vs armour. What you are seeing is the long 75 on the Panther has serious energy left after penetrating allied tanks out longer than the guns of the allied tanks have against it.
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You have to activate (via license key) the various modules and packs. The installer brings in everything even stuff you haven't bought yet. They greyed out stuff is things that the game thinks you have not purchased yet. To activate everything you purchased you need to enter the keys you received. There is a link that was installed called something like "Activate keys". I'm not in front of my gaming computer but it should be find-able. Run it as many times as you have keys to enter and it will get you sorted.
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I don't have the steam version installed but check your documents directory on a path like this C:\Users\<your name here>\Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission Red Thunder. I typed that from memory so take it as a guide not a perfectly correct path.
Orientation of barb wires
in Combat Mission Cold War
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You should be able to get them to switch to the other angles. Play around until you get it to work.